Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

After Li Dianwei finished speaking, all six people in the room were momentarily puzzled.

Generally speaking, high-level magical beasts are dealt with by high-level mages. Even if a fully equipped and powerful mid-level mage squad has the ability to deal with individual high-level magical beasts, the military will not actively make such a request.

After all, the probability of death for a mid-level mage team is still quite high when facing high-level magical beasts.

Most mages are high-attack but low-defense; a typical mid-level mage will be instantly killed when facing legendary-grade attack spells.

However, Li Dianwei's next words answered everyone's questions.

"A high-level Gold-Eating Locust has appeared inside the Minshan Insect Bridge, causing great damage and threatening the Candlelight Army stationed there. Now most of the Candlelight Army soldiers have been forced to evacuate, so you need to go in and find it. After you pinpoint its location, gather a group of mid-level mages to hunt it down together."

The Minshan Insect Bridge, as its name suggests, is a "bridge"-level passage between the two worlds, and only mid-level mages and mid-level magical beasts are allowed to enter.

As for why a high-level magical beast would appear inside such a low-level interdimensional passage, if it were in the past, Wang Yi would definitely be dumbfounded on the spot, knowing nothing, as foolish as an ordinary high school student.

Fortunately, Wang Yi has already made some progress. It can be said that the month of hard work in after-school tutoring was not in vain.

"How come there are high-level magical beasts inside the Minshan Insect Bridge? Aren't high-level magical beasts supposed to be unable to enter?" At this moment, a foolish high school student raised his question.

Wang Yi glanced at Hu Jin silently, a sense of superiority arising from his overwhelming knowledge.

Li Dianwei patiently provided a simple explanation to Hu Jin's question.

Just as Wang Yi knew, this high-level Gold-Eating Locust was just an ordinary mid-level Gold-Eating Locust ten days ago.

Just like human mages, since humans can advance in rank, so can magical beasts.

Unlike human mages, some magical beasts are born as high-level magical beasts, while human mages need to advance step by step.

There was clearly a mid-level Gold-Eating Locust inside the Minshan Insect Bridge. It had been secretly working hard and finally succeeded in advancing to a high-level magical beast, astonishing everyone and all the magical beasts.

Therefore, within the Minshan Insect Bridge, where the strongest are only mid-level mages and mid-level magical beasts, the high-level magical beast, the Gold-Eating Locust, can naturally launch high-dimensional attacks and dominate the battlefield.

Of course, although this Gold-Eating Locust successfully advanced, it came at a price: it could never leave the Minshan Insect Bridge again. Since the spatial entrance connecting the two worlds did not allow high-level beings to enter, it naturally would not allow them to leave either.

Therefore, the military-guarded passages between the two realms do not allow soldiers to advance freely within them.

In fact, one of the core tasks of the mid-level mage squad stationed at the 'Bridge' level interdimensional passage is to patrol and hunt powerful mid-level magical beasts to prevent such beasts from advancing.

However, a mid-level mage team can't possibly cover everything, and some magical beasts are also good at hiding, so although such magical beast advancement is relatively rare, it does happen occasionally.

For the Candlelight Army stationed at the Minshan Insect Bridge, the sudden appearance of a high-level magical beast was naturally beyond their ability to handle, unless a large number of mid-level mages joined forces to encircle and annihilate it, but that would result in heavy casualties.

Moreover, the Gold-Eating Locust is very fast. If it manages to escape in the end, wouldn't we be losing both our efforts and our resources?

That's why the Candlelight Army withdrew its soldiers to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, and then assigned stronger mid-level mages to handle the situation.

After all, even among mid-level mages, there is a world of difference in strength. Since the mid-level mage team in the Minshan Insect Bridge can't solve it, why not just find a top-tier mid-level mage to solve it?

This is also why Wang Yi and others were summoned here.

After the Battle of Liyuan, the military began to increase its recruitment and training of elite mages.

Since Wang Yi was able to attract the attention of five powerful armies vying for her, it shows that the military has long had this kind of practice. Therefore, other talented mages will naturally receive the same treatment.

Of course, when Wang Yi was recruited, five major generals from the five strongest armies appeared together, which was almost the most prestigious recruitment of genius mages in all these years.

The underachievers take turns doing it, and today it's Hu's turn. After briefly explaining to Hu Jin why a high-level magical beast appeared on the Minshan Insect Bridge, Li Dianwei began to explain the magic and characteristics of this high-level Gold-Eating Locust to the people present.

Although most of the people present were familiar with the Gold-Eating Locust, they listened quietly, with Hu Jin listening particularly attentively.

Fortunately, the Gold-Eating Locusts did not possess any domain magic; otherwise, the level of danger would have been several levels higher.

If you want to kill a high-level magical beast with domain magic, even if more than ten top mid-level mages cooperate, you will probably suffer heavy casualties. And these mid-level mages are often very talented young mages. They will basically start at the high level in the future, and they also have a certain hope of becoming extraordinary.

The military would never do such a losing proposition, so even if they abandoned the internal active defense of the Minshan Insect Bridge and switched to external passive defense, they would never let these genius mages deal with magical beasts that possess domain magic.

"There are currently three mid-level mage squads from the Candlelight Army standing by inside the Minshan Insect Bridge. Your main task is to find this high-level Gold-Eating Locust and then notify these three squads to jointly encircle and annihilate it."

Li Dianwei said very solemnly:

"The main reason for recruiting you is that you are rare space mages and mental mages, capable of detecting magical beasts over a wide area, and possess extremely high mobility."

"You form your own teams. One mental mage will be responsible for scouting for magical beasts, and one spatial mage will be responsible for quickly leading the teammates away from the battlefield if danger is encountered. When you spot this Gold-Eating Locust, do not act rashly. It is very fast and has high defense. Even without domain magic, it is a huge danger to a mid-level mage."

Li Dianwei's meaning was clear: the main task of the six men was to investigate.

Although they were all top-tier mid-level mages, they were not professional soldiers, and the Candlelight Army would not allow them to directly face high-level magical beasts.

Cases like the Minshan Insect Bridge are relatively rare and more difficult to deal with.

Because being a mage is a profession that requires both talent and strength, the top mid-level mages are often found on the campus of magic universities. Because of their exceptional talent, they are usually promoted to high-level mages within one or two years of graduation. Some exceptional geniuses don't even need to graduate from university.

"Any other questions?" Li Dianwei looked around and, finding no one had any, said, "You have two hours to prepare. You will enter the Minshan Insect Bridge in two hours."

After Li Dianwei left, Yu Xing raised his hand first and said, "I am a dual-elemental user of both mental and offensive magic, and I have the ability to detect magical energy. Can a spatial magic user teammate carry me?"